HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 1913 
All Yale Products bear the name “Yale” 
M ORE is demanded of builders 1 hardware nowa¬ 
days than that it merely serve a useful purpose. 
Utility, of course, is the first essential, but combined 
with this must be beauty of design consistently carried 
out through every detail. 
Yale Hardware offers this combination of utility and beauty in so wide 
a range of distinctive patterns that no scheme of hardware decoration is 
beyond its scope. For the home you are planning, or are building or 
remodeling, however pretentious or however modest, there is just the Yale 
design for your needs. 
Let us send you our booklet, “A Word about Yale Locks and Hardware,” showing a 
selection from the more than 200 Yale designs in practically all schools of ornament. 
The Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. 
Makers of YALE Products: Locks, Padlocks, Builders’ Hardware, Door Checks and Chain Hoists 
9 East 40th Street, New York City 
Chicago: 74 East Randolph Street San Francisco: 134 Rialto Building 
Canadian Yale & Towne Limited: St. Catharines, Can. 
it, our belief being that nature is the most 
skilled landscape architect. Thus there 
was no expense for exotic trees, no ex¬ 
pense for these particular freaks of nature 
produced by the hothouse, no expense for 
flowers that were not hardy, that could 
not be found in their native location year 
after year. 
The wild flowers were even made to add 
their touch to the general composition. 
From the neighboring fields beautiful 
clusters were brought to add to the color 
harmony. Again, there was no change 
made in land levels—no excavation, no 
grading, no attempt to turn this fine old 
pasture land where nature had established 
from year to year the proper grading into 
some pale reflection of southern Italy, or 
the gardens of Imperial Rome. 
Later, just over the western knoll and 
out of sight of the house, was established 
the kitchen garden. And even this had 
its flowers and was arranged to adapt it¬ 
self to the general lines of color composi¬ 
tion. 
Thus from the very start, the question 
of economy of expenditure went hand in 
hand with our desire for a simple yet 
beautiful home, and we found nothing an¬ 
tagonistic in either of these propositions. 
The little home even when first com¬ 
pleted looked as if it had always been 
there. Its stone walls were the stones of 
the fields, its timber the trees of the for¬ 
est, its cement made from the local sand; 
little or nothing in its entire construction 
came from foreign lands, and this has 
made it noteworthy. 
For months the neighbors came in 
streams to visit this unique achievement; 
artists have painted it; poets and authors 
have written of it, and even today those 
who come to the village are asked if they 
have seen this little home. 
And perhaps the best tribute ever paid 
to it was that of the head carpenter who 
had known us from early childhood, when 
he said, “It did not look for much when it 
started, but my! now it’s fine.” And 
when the last man had packed his tools 
and with a friendly good-bye left us, its 
cost was the cost of the workingman’s 
cottage — fifteen hundred dollars! 
Roses and Their Garden Culture 
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about three feet. Then draw the earth up 
around each plant in hills, and fill all the 
space between these hills with manure. 
Bend the plants down and cover the entire 
bed, plants and all, with straw or loose 
leaves, covering last of all with some 
branches, to anchor these. It is an ex¬ 
cellent plan to put the straw on somewhat 
in the form of a thatch to shed water. Do 
not apply any of this protective material, 
however, until actually cold, freezing 
weather has arrived. 
For the first choice among the hybrid 
perpetuals I think we may put Frau Karl 
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